Symphony No. 2
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symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
Key facts
- Key
- D major
- Style
- Classical period
- Composed
- 1801 ( 1801 ) –1802
- Dedication
- Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky
- Performed
- 5 April 1803 ( 1803-04-05 ) : Vienna
- Movements
- Four
- Date
- 5 April 1803
- Location
- Theater an der Wien, Vienna
- Conductor
- Ludwig van Beethoven
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Tonality
- D major
- Dedicated to
- Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky
- Image
- Beethoven Sinfonia no2 mov1 01.jpg
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- title
- 2. Sinfonie in D-Dur
- form of creative work
- symphony
- different from
- Symphony No. 2
- number of parts of this work
- 4
- date of first performance
- 1803-04-05
- instrumentation
- symphony orchestra
- publication date
- 1804-00-00
- inception
- 1801-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- opus number
- 36
- Commons category
- Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, is a symphony in four movements written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1801 and 1802. The work is dedicated to Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Symphony No. 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.